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thylacine222 commented on Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes   simonwillison.net/2025/Ma... · Posted by u/ulrischa
dzaima · 6 months ago
Humans can hallucinate up some API they want to call in the same way that LLMs can, but you don't call all human mistakes hallucinations; classifying everything LLMs do wrong as hallucinations would seem rather pointless to me.
thylacine222 · 6 months ago
Analogizing this to human hallucination is silly. In the instance you're talking about, the human isn't hallucinating, they're lying.
thylacine222 commented on Omnivore Is Joining ElevenLabs   blog.omnivore.app/p/omniv... · Posted by u/janpio
0x6c6f6c · 10 months ago
When you're actually creating an entry via the share prompt there are no options at all unlike the browser extension (for Android at least)

So yeah, you can tag it.. if you exit your current app, find Omnivore in your launcher, open the app, find the entry you just made, then edit it, then add tags.. but that's a terrible UX.

thylacine222 · 10 months ago
Ah yeah, the share dialog is really basic, I ended up using Firefox and installing the full extension when I wanted to save pages (also allows you to save pages from places you're logged into)
thylacine222 commented on Omnivore Is Joining ElevenLabs   blog.omnivore.app/p/omniv... · Posted by u/janpio
0x6c6f6c · 10 months ago
Except on Android, where you couldn't even tag saved articles.

I noticed development had stopped weeks ago. Sort of figured something like this was going to happen. Unfortunate, but I'll be happy on Wallabag again. I'd been just waiting for a push to do migrate back.

thylacine222 · 10 months ago
I seem to be able to tag articles, do you not have an "Edit Labels" option in the article menu? Regardless, they definitely were lagging on Android development, but it was still finished enough to use it. There's even a version that supports pagination: https://github.com/tent4kel/omnivore/releases/
thylacine222 commented on Omnivore Is Joining ElevenLabs   blog.omnivore.app/p/omniv... · Posted by u/janpio
thylacine222 · 10 months ago
this really sucks, it's by far the best reader app out there. Hoping that people will be able to figure out a straightforward way to do self-hosting, because I would be willing to use the app as it is right now forever.
thylacine222 commented on Omnivore Is Joining ElevenLabs   blog.omnivore.app/p/omniv... · Posted by u/janpio
qw3rty01 · 10 months ago
It already has a self-hosting option: https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/tree/main/self-host...

It's just not documented well.

thylacine222 · 10 months ago
It's not a great self-hosting option, tbh, depends on a lot of Google services and the support for it in the apps can be finicky.
thylacine222 commented on Show HN: AI dub tool I made to watch foreign language videos with my 7-year-old   speakz.ai... · Posted by u/leobg
jeroenhd · 2 years ago
Some of the best subtitles I've ever seen were on Tom Scott's YouTube channel. They use different colours, indicators for jokes and sarcasm, while also staying relatively close to what's actually been said. They're better than many big-budget movies and TV shows I've seen.

He talked about subtitling at some point, and I was surprised how cheap subtitling services are. I think he went beyond the price he mentioned, but it really made me question why big, profitable YouTube channels aren't spending the small change to do at least native language subtitles that Google can translate, instead of relying on YouTube's terrible algorithm

That said, Whisper seems to generate quite good subtitles that take short pauses for timing into account, but they're obviously neve going to be as good as a human that actually understands the context of what's being said.

thylacine222 · 2 years ago
Whisper can also generate timings at the word level, which you could use to make better-timed subtitles
thylacine222 commented on Show HN: Bulletpapers – ArXiv AI paper summarizer, won Anthropic Hackathon   bulletpapers.ai... · Posted by u/mattfalconer
thylacine222 · 2 years ago
The blur effect that shows up when you start chatting is very annoying -- I want to be able to see the details of the paper so I can ask about them!
thylacine222 commented on Pottery becomes water treatment device for Navajo nation   techxplore.com/news/2023-... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
InSteady · 2 years ago
Water rights on the Colorado are a huge, contentious issue and there are many states involved in the fierce negotiations over who gets a slice of the ever dwindling pie. As per the Guardian article, California is among the major stakeholders drowning out the pleas of the Navajo nation for access to drinking water. In fact, of all the states vying for more water access, California takes the most water out of the Colorado by a large margin.

This problem is not exclusively at the feet of Arizonans nor retirees.. with a population of 40 million in Cali (and 1/4 of the state being desert) vs 7 million in Arizona, I daresay Californians are spending more of this limited resources on golf courses and manicured lawns, which regardless of how opulent and wasteful it feels, these aren't even the main issue. 80% of all the water in the Colorado river goes to farmland (and I do mean all, 100% of the water is being diverted before it reaches the ocean and has been for some time). Much of it for water-intensive crops such as alfalfa, not to mention producing 90% of the nation's winter vegetables in California.

All of that is to say, if we're going to point fingers, let's not stop at lawns in one particular state. And before we dismiss possible solutions out of hand, we should probably do an assessment of whether or not a proposal to help the issue is economical, practical, and scalable (cultural relevance is just a nice bonus). Bear in mind, the federal government has successfully argued that the treaties do not require them to assess the needs of tribal peoples nor build the infrastructure to meet that need and the supreme court has formally ruled that the Navajo will not got water access under the attempted legal push. California, Nevada, and Arizona all lobbied the court in support of this "no" ruling (I'm assuming amicus briefs, but reporting doesn't specify). Hopefully further political and legal efforts can grant the Navajo nation this basic human right, but in the mean time, it is worth looking into stop-gap solutions for the 40,000 Navajo on reservations who don't have access to drinking water.

thylacine222 · 2 years ago
I wasn't pointing fingers at the retirees, I specifically blamed at the federal government, who refuse to recognize the Navajo Nation's water access rights, as you said.
thylacine222 commented on Pottery becomes water treatment device for Navajo nation   techxplore.com/news/2023-... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
thylacine222 · 2 years ago
I'm sure the authors meant well, but it's absurd to act like this is a solution. They could have a clean source of water, but the federal government is siding against them[1] for water rights so that retirees in Arizona can have golf courses and manicured lawns in the middle of a desert[2].

1: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/20/1164852475/supreme-court-nava...

2: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/05/arizona-wate...

thylacine222 commented on Bandcamp Unionizes   bandcampunited.org... · Posted by u/panic
LastTrain · 2 years ago
I’m pro union and I’m in the tech industry, but it is tone deaf when members of best paid and most well treated of industries speak as if they are oppressed. It kind of makes a mockery of the plight of the actual working class.
thylacine222 · 2 years ago
The working class can't live off your pity, they would much rather have a strong union movement from every sector so we can fight together.

u/thylacine222

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